Barns of Ayr

The Barns of Ayr was a tale of Scottish folklore which claimed that, in 1297, a number of Scottish barons of Ayrshire were called to a meeting with King Edward I of England at a barn used as an English military barracks, only to be massacred and hanged. The mass hanging of nobles was a sign of Edward's cruelty towards the Scots, and it helped to provoke William Wallace's revolt against the English occupation of Scotland.